Marijuana Study: Stops Breast Cancer

[Sequoiacrone]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oPaSnjHawo

[Sequoiacrone]

On August first I will be a 25 year Breast Cancer Survivor. I had a mastectomy and have kept up my mammograms and self exams in the remaining breast.

Sistahs I encourage you all to get those mammograms, it's what you don't know that can hurt you. Don't be afraid to act and act quickly at the slightest sign of a problem.

I will say that I have been an ingester of Marijuana for many many years. I consume some form of cannbis, butters, oils, glycerin tinctures, on a daily basis.

I read a study in 1974 that mentioned research being done in Cancer research and Marijuana was involved.

The other day a friend sent me a reference to that study.

In fact, the first experiment documenting pot's potent anti-cancer effects took place in 1974 at the Medical College of Virginia at the behest federal bureaucrats. The results of that study, reported in an Aug. 18, 1974, Washington Post newspaper feature, were that marijuana's primary psychoactive component, THC, "slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent."
Despite these favorable preliminary findings (eventually published the following year in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute), U.S. government officials refused to authorize any follow-up research until conducting a similar - though secret - clinical trial in the mid-1990s. That study, conducted by the U.S. National Toxicology Program to the tune of $2 million, concluded that mice and rats administered high doses of THC over long periods had greater protection against malignant tumors than untreated controls.
However, rather than publicize their findings, government researchers shelved the results, which only became public after a draft copy of its findings were leaked to the medical journal AIDS Treatment News, which in turn forwarded the story to the national media.
Paul Armentano, Vallejo NORML National Org.

Take the time to google around and find out more about this issue.

Sequoia :rolleyes:

On Edit: Paul's opinion ....the rest of the story
http://www.timesheraldonline.com/opinion/ci_9594528


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